Sentences with phrase «during last election»

During the last election cycle, RPAC raised and contributed more than $ 2 million dollars to federal candidates, making it the eighth largest PAC; but many of the organizations ranked above NAR in the Fortune 25 power list, such as the AFL - CIO, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, and the American Medical Association, spent more money than RPAC.

Top federal officials have concluded that Russian hackers targeted election systems in 21 states and breached that of at least one, Illinois, during the last election cycle.

Your seemingly innocent and private profiles, musings, likes, and shares were all mined and assembled into a profile of how best to exploit your beliefs, fears, and hopes during the last election.

And before the rise of the fake news phenomenon in the US during the last election cycle, these platforms had also been instrumental in spreading spurious information to influence Indian voters.

During the last election campaign, the federal NDP said it would not allow Trans Mountain to go forward based on the Harper government's truncated and inadequate approval process.

In addition to being elected to lead the federal New Democratic Party earlier this year, Thomas Mulcair was instrumental in helping Jack Layton engineer the party's «orange tide» in Quebec during the last election.

And during the last election cycle, Carlos Curbelo, Ryan Costello, and Rob Portman all ran as climate moderates and paid no political price.

According to VPAP, more than 50 % of Virginia legislators ran unopposed during the last election.

That was a promise made during the last election campaign, with the goal of encouraging more Canadians to stash away money for a rainy day or a big purchase, such as a first home.

During the last election, the Tories had promised to double annual contributions to TFSAs.

«We also intend however to move quickly to implement promises we made to Canadians during the last election campaign,» Harper said.

And the $ 200,000 that conservatives Ed McVaney, Ralph Nagel and Alex Cranberg pumped into school board races (including Loveland and Jeffco) during the last election cycle, according to a Denver Post story, was another eyebrow - raiser.

As I noted a couple of years ago on AMPS, these same set of billionaires that Jilani cited (he noted that the American Federation for Children alone spent $ 820,000 in Wisconsin during the last election) have the money and the organizational power to reach their ultimate goal, unless we begin to stop them in their tracks.

The National Education Association spent $ 23 million during the last election cycle alone to elect politicians to keep low - income Americans right where they are.

Here's an example of the high stakes: During the last election cycle, controversial initiatives like Common Core, charter schools, alternate route programs, vouchers and teacher tenure have all been on table for elected boards to consider in Louisiana and other states.

When we look at it, we see it as it was during the last election cycle.

«Let me tell you, it was no secret and I guess I never wanted anyone to feel sorry for me but I was in really in bad shape during the last election and that's a hell of a thing for a politician to have to admit,» Mr. Rangel said

The governor said there was no issue between him and Oke but for some rabble - rousers who were keen to cause disaffection in the party, especially during the last election.

During the last election cycle, the firm was the largest donor to Cuomo ($ 1 million), Attorney General Eric Schneiderman ($ 240,000) and Comptroller Tom DiNapoli ($ 180,000).

During the last election cycle, limited liability companies controlled by the company and its founder, Leonard Litwin, gave $ 3.6 million to state - level candidates and parties, more than any other donor and an amount equal to 1.4 percent of all the money contributed to these committees.

The letter has been sent as the commission and at least 16 police forces examine claims that the Conservatives failed to properly declare hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on accommodation and travel during the last election.

It marked the first that the super PAC, which spent over $ 300 million during the last election cycle, had entered the fray in a Republican primary.

And National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Greg Walden visited central New York twice during the last election to campaign with Katko.

During the last election, it avoided backing primary challengers against sitting Republican senators, preferring instead to support GOP incumbents who had previously received club support and were running for re-election.

«The formula that Nick Clegg used during the last election was to say that he would negotiate first with whoever out of Labour or the Tories had won the most support.

Then on Friday, his attorneys continued that tack, examining the influence Buffalo Teachers Federation President Philip Rumore has over the school system and pressing one board member on how much union support she received during the last election.

«Conduct and activities of The Advance Group during the last election cycle may have involved the coordinating of independent expenditure Super PACs with official campaigns, and The Advance Group provided unpaid lobbying services to a public official and, as a consequence, The Advance Group will benefit from selling access to the public official to influence official acts,» the complaint alleges.

«During the last election cycle, Senator Kruger's campaign committee contributed a combined total of $ 8,000 to Independent Democratic Conference members.

Tinubu denied allegations that it was Abayomi that convinced him to support President Muhammadu Buhari during the last election.

The seat held by Martin, the Republican Senator running for Congress on Long Island, will come down to a contest between Republican Elaine Phillips, mayor of Flower Hill, a small town in Nassau, and Adam Haber, a Democratic businessman who lost a challenge to Martins 56 - 43 percent during the last election.

The critique of Espaillat in East Harlem during the last election was that he was a little too focused on ethnicity.

Although the NDC was defeated by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) during the last election, Mr. Amidu in his latest...

Although the NDC was defeated by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) during the last election, Mr. Amidu in his latest article insisted that ``... as I said time without number during the 2016 elections, she was appointed by a corrupt Government precisely because of her incompetence that made her susceptible for use for an election rigging agenda.»

No one pointed out that Cuomo had stood next to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — who holds the same positions on abortion and Syrian refugees — so frequently during the last election that other Republicans complained.

The online feud stemmed from Mr. Swiskey accusing the village of improperly handling absentee ballots during the last election, according to the screenshots provided by Mr. Swiskey.

GOP lawmakers have contended the GEA as its known disproportionately hurts rural and suburban districts — a drum beat during the last election cycle.

Also perhaps coincidentally, Bedenko was a strong supporter of Hoyt during the last election cycle, has been a consistent critic of the Brown administration and was, after all, the only one to publish the garbage.

During the last election, turnout was abysmal.

I am a member of You Gov and Populus and I can tell you I was rarely asked my opinion about voting intentions during the last election campaign.

Glenwood and Litwin gave Cuomo's committee $ 1 million during the last election cycle, more than any other donor.

But Laura Moser isn't the only Democratic House candidate who was living in Washington, D.C., during the last election.

During last election, the Catholic Church took a decision that they wanted to endorse, traders will endorse, traditional rulers will endorse, communities will endorse.

«I was honored that more than 120,000 voters chose me to represent them during the last election,» said Doheny in a press release.

He's also a hypocrite as we found out during the last election.

As the National Republican Senatorial Committee's political director during the last election cycle, the former Marine helped orchestrate a stunning nine - seat GOP gain, seizing Senate control for the first time since 2006.

He stated that President Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) was out to destroy Falae because the former presidential candidate and his party did not support them during the last election.

Other independent possibilities include Zephyr Teachout, who challenged Cuomo during his last election.

Gillibrand raised more than $ 1 million during the last election cycle for 15 other female candidates.

During the last election cycle, the same experiment would have been nearly impossible.

It carries such a strong invocation of the «liberal metropolitan elite» character - type that the phrase was deliberately employed during the last election by none other than David Cameron with his jibe about «the same old condescending, bossy, interfering, we - know - best attitude of the Hampstead socialist down the ages».